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To mark LGBT+ History Month, we are screening a Drag Musical every Friday in February
With this trailblazing musical, writer–director–star John Cameron Mitchell and composerlyricist Stephen Trask brought their signature creation from stage to screen for a movie asunclassifiable as its protagonist.
Raised a boy in East Berlin, Hedwig (Mitchell) undergoes a traumatic personal transformation in order to emigrate to the US, where she reinvents herself as an 'internationally ignored' but divinely talented rock diva, characterized by Mitchell as a 'beautiful gender of one.'
The film tells Hedwig’s life through her music, an eclectic assortment of original punk anthems and power ballads by Trask, matching them with a freewheeling cinematic mosaic of music-video fantasies, animated interludes, and moments of bracing emotional realism. A hard-charging song cycle and a tender character study, Hedwig and the Angry Inch is a tribute to the transcendent power of rock and roll.
Cast:
John Cameron Mitchell, Miriam Shor, Stephen Trask, Theodore Liscinski